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review of THE MAP OF TIME - Times Literary Supplement
On occasion I write for the Times Literary Supplement, mostly on Spanish fantasy, genre, new weird writing. Or simply something special that has caught my eye.It is not a mere audacity to say that the...
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drinking with Dickens (in his bicentenary)
I guess it is fair to say that we are very partial in our home to Charles Dickens. When we moved here, I put together and co-translated one of the books I am most proud to be connected with, his...
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Steampunk connections
We had been living here for roughly a year when our beloved Oxford was the site of what perhaps was the most interesting exhibition ever to be seen in our dear Alma Mater. The Museum of the History of...
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reseña Érase una vez una mujer que quería matar al bebé de su vecina, Ludmila...
Ludmila Petrushévskaia, Érase una vez una mujer que quería matar al bebé de su vecina, Atalanta, 2011. Traducción de Fernando Otero.La débil frontera que media entre la pesadilla y el sueño es el...
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review UN BUEN DETECTIVE NO SE CASA JAMÁS
Un buen detective no se casa jamás, Marta Sanz (Barcelona, Anagrama, 2012, 320 pp.; 978-84-339-7238-5)The recent wave of popular interest in Nordic crime literature has helped provide a boost for the...
View Articlereview SPAIN'S GREAT UNTRANSLATED - The Times Literary Supplement
On occasion I write for the Times Literary Supplement, mostly on Spanish fantasy, genre, new weird writing. Or simply something special that has caught my eye."Javier Aparicio, Aurelio Major &...
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summer pudding is back!
There's not much more to add after looking at this gorgeous beauty. Summer pudding is my all-time favourite dessert. I don't have much of a memory of childhood desserts, as my family wasn't really a...
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blueberry muffins
Mmm. I'll say it again, but louder: MMM!!! W-O-W!, that's another good one. As an amateur-imperfect baker, there's nothing more gratifying than finding a recipe that WORKS. No matter how clumsy you...
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Ancho mar de los Sargazos - La novela de tu vida
Hace algunos meses participé en el proyecto "La novela de tu vida" de la mano de Care Santos. Escribí sobre Ancho mar de los Sargazos, la hermosa novela de Jean Rhys."Siete u ocho años es un tiempo...
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In Praise of Fairies
ENGLISH FAIRIES: New FactsEvery girl wants to believe in Fairies. Well, recently I've come across a bit of information which has made me very happy indeed (than you very much, UK's daytime...
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article: This is not the Spain I knew - New Internationalist
Quite a lot has been happening recently in Spain, my native country, where we moved back from the UK five years ago. Things here have got pretty bad, deteriorating rapidly since Mariano Rajoy's...
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writing: inspiration
After spending Christmas in Cambridge, I imagine England will end up looking like this. The river was very full of water, the moorhens were abandoning their nests by the river in order to venture into...
View Articlearticle: Shut up, stay put and have nice babies - New Internationalist
The current situation in Spain regarding the controversial abortion bill presented before Parliament led me to write about it for the New Internationalist. You can read the article here. Or below. But...
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article - Nun, ministers, priests and babies
Today I received in the post my new contributor's copy to the New Internationalist. My editor called my piece "the best written piece in the section". I am delighted she thinks so!
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reseña - Deshielo y ascensión
DESHIELO Y ASCENSIÓNÁlvaro Cortina Urdampilleta(Jekyll & Jill, Zaragoza, 2013)El deshielo antecederá el apocalipsis, un apocalipsis acuosa, que convertirá el mundo en un infierno anegado. El...
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Spanish Sci-Fi Roundup (I)
Considering that Spanish literature has traditionally been dominated by realism, it is refreshing to see that the new releases sections in bookshops are more and more filled with books in the fantastic...
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Presencia Humana. The Spanish "New Weird" magazine
The Anthology which originated the project, and the two issues of Presencia Humana. Revista de creación extraña.
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the publishing year when my BIG small-press publisher dreams became truth
I said once that my biggest dreams as a publisher would be to publish H.P. Lovecraft and a (much needed) Spanish new translation of The Master and Margarita. Well, this publishing year we have done...
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House of Leaves - Mini-Review
In the early 2000s I was up to my eyebrows in academia, and my themes were narrative labyrinths and the gothic; I cannot believe none of my teachers directed me towards this masterpiece of American...
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Looking back at #Clarion2014 (from never-ending week7)
Fate puts together a nice bunch of like-minded people to fight the zombie apocalypse, defeat an evil villain, find a magical object necessary to prevent the end of the world. They live the adventure of...
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My LonCon 3 – What I did at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention
The complete collection of Edmund Crispin's collected SF for Faber & Faber (London, mid 1950s)The above picture highlights something I particularly like about SF/F fans: they respect their own...
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Calle Andersen - mi primer libro infantil
Copenhague, siglo XIX. Bienvenidos a un nuevo mundo de tecnología y descubrimientos. Un mundo donde se ha conseguido crear vida artificial. Y si, para ello, han de desaparecer unos cuantos niños de la...
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Andersen Street - new children's book (English press-release)
Cortesía de La Galera editorial (Barcelona, 2014)
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Moder la Manzana · Halloween foreword
This year I was asked to write a foreword for a #SpanishHorror anthology published in Halloween. The book can be bought here. The foreword you can read below.El lugar apestaba a flores… es decir, olía...
View ArticleCalle Andersen - selection of reviews
I hadn't realise the amount of wonderful reviews that CALLE ANDERSEN has been ripping over the past couple of months. I've collected a selection of them here, and thank you very much to everyone who is...
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